Video: Creating and styling a placeholder style

In this movie, I'll show you how to build a style from scratch, and apply it to some place-holder text. And one more note about the last movie. In addition to not being able to undo the creation of a style, or the redefinition of a style, you cannot undo the deletion of a style. So, after I got done putting my document back together. I had to recreate this style as well. So what I'm going to do now is press the T key to return to the type tool. And I'm going to click on the in the air layer for a moment just to establish that see go script at 50 points is my default font.

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Creating and styling a placeholder style

In this movie, I'll show you how to build astyle from scratch, and apply it to some place-holder text.And one more note about the last movie.In addition to not being able to undo the creation of a style,or the redefinition of a style, you cannot undo the deletion of a style.So, after I got done putting my document back together.I had to recreate this style as well.So what I'm going to do now is press the T key to return to the type tool.AndI'm going to click on the in the air layer for a moment justto establish that see go script at 50 points is my default font.

Then I'll switch back to the background layer,because that's the kind of thing that happens.I don't really want it to be, but that'sthe kind of stuff that happens routinely in Photoshop.And I want to create a new paragraph by dragging.But if I start dragging here, I'm going to select some text.So I'll go ahead and press the Escape key in order to undo that change.And then click on the background layer again.Notice the difference in the appearance of the cursor here.When Photoshop is ready for you to create a new text layer.The cursor has a dotted box around it.When Photoshop thinks you're going to select an existingtext layer then you just see the I-beam.

If you want to be able to start dragging righthere and create a new layer, here's what you do.You press and hold the Shift key and then begin dragging like so.However,you've gotta release the shift key after youstart dragging otherwise you'll be locked into a square.Anyway I'm going to create a frame that descends into the grass here and thenI'll go up into the type menu and use this command paste lorm ipson.And we will have this ginormous text which forsome reason is showing up as black for me.It may show up as red for you.

And this is obviously not what I want at all.In CS5 andearlier, you might have been tempted just to hit the Escape key andstart over again, and reset your formattingattributes before you create a new layer.However, now that we have paragraph styles, there's an easier way to work.So I'll go ahead and press the enter key, on thenumeric keypad, in order to accept that text, flawed as it is.And then I'll switch to my background imagein order to switch away from the text.I'll go to the Paragraph Styles panel, and I'll click on the little page iconto create a new style.And then I'll double click on paragraph style 1 in order to open the dialog box.

Let's go ahead and call this style body copy right from the beginning here.And then I'm going to set a few attributes.First of all, I'm going to change the font family.And you have to do this manually by the way.You can't just type in a few characters or use the up and down arrow keys.And I'm going to switch things out to Adobe Caslon Pro,which does ship along with the Creative Suite, and isalphabetized by Caslon, not Adobe.And next I'm going to change the type size to let's say, 8 points, and I'mgoing to change the leading value to 9points, and metrics is fine for the kerning.

I do want the text to be black.I'm now going to switch to indents and spacing.And as opposed to beginning each paragraph with an indent.I'm going to begin it with, let's say, 6 points of before spacing.So I'll just type 6,and press the tab key.And that's really all the settings I need to change.So I'll go ahead and click okay in order to create that redefined style.Now let's apply it to the place holdertext by clicking on the bottom most text layer.And, I'll go ahead and click on body copy to make it active.And it's telling me that I've got somelocal overrides, even though everything looks great, butit's always a good idea to click thatclear override button if you see the plus sign.

All right now at this point I want to editthe text a little.I do not care if this is Photoshop's version of lorem ipsum.I'll go ahead and get rid of that and then I'll introduce some carriage returns herelike so and you can put them anywhereyou want this is after all just placeholder text.And then finally after I think yeah that's enough textthen I'll just select the rest by quadruple clicking on it.And press the backspace key or the delete key on the mac to get rid of it.And then I'll press the enter key on the numerickeypad in order to leave the text entry mode.

Alright, now I'm going to press command shift down arrow a coupleof times in order to nudge this text down like so.Might take it even a little further to about right there.And now let's say, you know, I'm thinking some moreabout this, and there's some further modifications that I want to make.And so, I think this time I'll apply my changes directly to the text.So I'm going to go ahead and quadruple click in one of theseparagraphs here, and I'll bring up my character panel bypressing Ctrl+t, or Cmd+t on the Mac, and you know what?I think the lighting value wants to be more like 9.5.

We're working with pretty small type, soI can't take advantage of that keyboard shortcut.So I'll just go ahead and enter the value here.And then, I'll switch to the Paragraph panel,which gives me access to the Paragraph-level formatting attributes.And I'll click on this guy right there, Addspace to paragraph, to select that 6 point value.And I'll change it to, let's say, 4 point.Now that value isn't going to make any difference to thistop paragraph, because the space appears before it, but it'llmake a difference to the definition of our paragraph styleas soon as we bring up the paragraph styles panel.And then this time, different way of working,you can click on the flyout menu icon andchoose the redefine style command, and that's going togo ahead and update all three paragraphs of text.

Now one last thing I want to mention.I'm sure some of you are wondering, well how do I share styles with other people?Well notice here, if I click on the flyermenu icon again there's this command, load paragraph styles.And if you choose it, then you'll see that youcan open the styles included in any native PSD document.So just go ahead and click on something likeformatted teaser if you have access to my files.And click on the load button, and you'll go ahead, and load two paragraphstyles, Teaser head, and teaser copy, from the first movie.

Then go ahead and click OK.So that's how you create a paragraph style from scratch.Import and use placeholder text as well asload styles from another PSD document here inside Photoshop.

A: Deke updated the course to reflect changes in the 2014
version of Photoshop CC. The updates are concentrated in "The Content-Aware Collection" and "Creating and Formatting Text"
chapters, but there are new movies sprinkled throughout the course as well.

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